Objet désagréable

1931

on display

Alberto Giacometti1901 Borgonovo bei Stampa – 1966 Chur

'Objet désagréable' was created as a cast of a preceding model made using a multi-part negative plaster mould (plaster piece-mould). The surface displays no evidence of further working.
No subsequent moulds were made from this plaster, meaning that it did not serve as a template for a bronze cast.Kunsthaus Zürich, 2016

Also known as

Unangenehmes Ding Disagreeable Object

Medium

Plaster

Dimensions

object: 12.5 x 48.5 x 10.5 cm

Inventory number

GS 297

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Donated by Bruno and Odette Giacometti, 2006

Signature

Inscriptions

Accession year

2006

Provenance

Alberto Giacometti
Bruno und Odette Giacometti, bis 2006, Nachlass
Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung (Museum), 2006, Geschenk
Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), ab 2006, Leihgabe

Literature (provenance)

Literature (general)

- Alberto Giacometti. Material und Vision: Die Meisterwerke in Gips, Stein, Ton und Bronze, hrsg. von Philippe Büttner et al., Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2016, No. 17, S. 100. - Lena Fritsch/Frances Morris/Catherine Grenier: Giacometti, London: Tate Publishing, 2017, S. 163.

Object type

sculpture

Classification

D 1[1] art 20th century CHE

Keywords

Surrealism